Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.